News 1. Climate change action This week people around the world are stepping up activism around the climate emergency during the UN climate action summit in New York. A list of local events can be found here. 2. What to do about Justin? Writes Stephen Kimber: Last week’s Blackface/Brownface controversy raises the complicated question of […]
Climate change is killing the right whales
Morning File, Thursday, June 27, 2019
News 1. Why aren’t Cabot Links or Ben Cowan-Dewar registered as lobbyists? “You would have to be completely foolhardy to question the brain trust that has formed to support spending public money to build an airport in Inverness but foolhardy’s my middle name so — hold my beer,” writes Mary Campbell for the Cape Breton Spectator: […]
Eulogy for a Goose: Morning File, Thursday, August 10, 2017
News 1. Chronicle Herald vote today Striking Chronicle Herald newsroom employees will today vote on whether to accept a proposed deal with the company. Yesterday, Jacob Boon at The Coast published details of the agreement: While a media blackout prevents the Herald and HTU from detailing the tentative agreement until it’s ratified, several sources with […]